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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, September 11, 2006

9/11 ANNIVERSARY
9 with Hawai'i ties remembered

 •  Ache of Sept. 11 hasn't faded for Islanders

Advertiser Staff

Corrigan

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Keane

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Hale

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Lee

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Colodner

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Snyder

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At least nine people with Hawai'i ties were killed in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The following information was published in 2002 in remembrance of the victims who had ties to the state.

Georgine Rose Corrigan. An antique dealer, Corrigan was 55 years old and a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed into a Pennsylvania field. Her daughter, Laura Brough, was in Hawai'i Kai.

Richard Keane. Brother of Charlotte Keane, then a nurse at Kuakini Medical Center, was at the World Trade Center for a meeting when United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into it, killing him.

Maile Hale. The 26-year-old chief operating officer and vice president of Boston Investor Services was a valedictorian of Kaiser High School, Class of 1993. She was attending a conference at Windows on the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center's north tower when she was killed.

Michael Collins. The husband of Lissa Jean Collins, a fashion designer and 1977 Leilehua High School graduate. Michael Collins, 38, was in the World Trade Center. He was a manager with Cantor Fitzgerald's eSpeed division and a native of New York.

Rich Y.C. Lee. A 1986 Punahou graduate who went on to play football at Yale University, he was managing director of equities technology for Cantor Fitzgerald in New York. He was one of about 700 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who died when the towers collapsed. In Hawai'i, there's a plaque in the Punahou end zone for him.

Patricia "Patti" Pitchford Colodner. The 39-year-old executive secretary at Marsh & McLennan was at her desk on the 96th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower when it collapsed. Colodner, who was born in Hawai'i, attended Star of the Sea School, graduated from Our Redeemer Lutheran High School in 1979 and moved to New York shortly after that. She married in 1990 and had two children.

David Laychak. The husband of Laurie Miller Laychak, a 1980 graduate of Hawaii Baptist Academy. She was working as a substitute teacher in Manassas, Va., when a note was delivered to her second-grade class alerting her that there had been an attack on the Pentagon. A civilian budget analyst for the Army, he was killed in the attack.

Christine Snyder. Three months before she died in the attack, Snyder married Ian Pescaia of Kailua. She was on United Airlines Flight 93 with Georgine Corrigan. Snyder was returning home after attending the American Forestry Conference in Washington, D.C., and visiting New York City for the first time. Her stepmother, Jan Snyder, lived in 'Aiea.

Heather Ho. The 32-year-old, Class of 1987 Punahou graduate was an up-and-coming pastry chef at Windows on the World. She grew up in Honolulu and graduated from Boston University and the Culinary Institute of America. She worked at high-profile New York restaurants including Gramercy Tavern, Bouley, Clementine and the Screening Room, and in San Francisco at Boulevard.